How do children in your country do at maths, reading and science?

Every three years, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) conducts its Programme for Internenational Student Achievement (PISA) and it has just published the results for 2012. The testing of 15 year olds is in mathematics, reading and science and this time 65 countries and regions took part.

How did the UK do? We came 21st for science, 23rd for reading and 26th for maths. When the results for the UK were broken down by nation, England, Scotland and Northern Ireland showed results that were very similar. But Wales dipped further down compared to 2009, dropping from the equivalent of 20th in science to 36th and from 27th in reading to 41st.

At least the UK did better than  better than the USA which had the humiliation of seeing its performance in reading, maths and science surpassed by Vietnam, which entered PISA for the first time.

You can find the UK results for 2009 and 2012 and the 2012 results of the 34 OECD countries here.

You can access the full OECD report and results here.

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